Show stand



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' M. RAHN;

SHOW STAND.

No. 603,203. PatentedAp-r. 26,1898.

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' M. HAHN.

SHOW STAND.

Nd."603,203 Patented Apr. 26,1898.

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MAX RAHN, OF BERLIN, GERMANY.

SHOW-STAN D.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 603,203, dated April 26, 1898.

Application filed May 31, 1895. Serial No- 551,276. (No model.) Patented in Germany February 22, 1895 No. 87,939 5 in England February 27,1895, No. 4,266, and in France March 2,1895,N0.245,505.

.To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAX RAHN, of 41/42 Friedrichstra sse, Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Show-Stands, (for which I have obtained a patent in Germany, No. 87,939, bearing date February 22, 1895; in Great Britain, No. 4,266, bearing date February 27 1895, and in France, No. 245,505, bearing date March 2, 1895,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in show-stands in which a rod operates in conjunction with a tube fixed to a frame adapted to support clothes and the like and provided with elastic strips of metal; and the object of my improvements is to bulge out the elastic strips, so as to take more or less the form of the sample to be exhibited. I attain this object by means of the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front view of the-show-stand; Fig. 2, a section on the line y y, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a section on the line 22, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detail view showing in side elevation the tube and Fig. 5 is a detail View showing in front elevation the rod a, bolts 1), and links h.

The show-stand comprises a tube f slottedat c d, and a rod a, adapted to slide in the said tube. A frame g is connected at its upper and lower ends with the tube f and provided at certain distances apart with guidepieces 41, through the middle of which pins it pass freely, being connected at their outer ends with thin elastic strips Z of metal. The inner ends of the pins k are connected by links h to bolts 19, which pass through the rod a and lthe slots 0 d of the tube f.

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By moving the rod a outward the bolts 12 are raised, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, and the pins k are thrown inward, and with them the ends of the elastic strips Z,which now bulge out, as shown in dotted lines in Figs. 2 and 3. The elastic strips are held in the position shown in dotted lines in Figs. 2 and 3 by sticking a pin through one of the holes a of the rod a and the hole f of the tube f, Figs. The sample to be exhibited is then laid upon the elastic strips, bulged out in such a manner that they tally with the contours of a certain portion of the human body. When the rod a is moved inward, the elastic strips Z return into their normal position and the frame is flattened down for convenience of packing up or storage.

Having now described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a show-stand,the combination of a slotted tube, with a frame fixed to the slotted tube and having guide-pieces, a rod having pins and adapted to slide in the said slotted tube, pins passing freely through the guide-pieces, elastic strips connected to the outer ends of the pins of the guide-pieces, and links connecting the inner ends of the pins of the guidepieces with the pins of the sliding rod, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

MAX HAHN.

Witnesses WM. HAUrr, CHAS. KRUGER. 

